Vernon should focus on baseload power.
Decentralized intermittent generation gobbles up open lands. Vernon should preserve its history of agricultural and open lands.
PUTNEY-I am grateful to call Bex Slattery a colleague, blessed to call her a friend,
WILMINGTON-As a former Vernon resident (and one dying to move back there!) I wholeheartedly endorse...
BRATTLEBORO-Oscar Heller is my choice for the three-year seat on the Brattleboro Selectboard. As a...
BRATTLEBORO-Gov. Phil Scott has proposed eliminating Vermont's successful universal school meals program. As a parent...
The Vermont Nuclear Decommissioning Citizens Advisory Panel met 19 times before Nov. 8, 2016. But everything changed that day, when Entergy announced a tentative deal to sell Vermont Yankee to NorthStar Group Services, a New York-based decommissioning company. Given NorthStar's plan to greatly accelerate decommissioning of the Vernon plant, some are wondering whether a panel that's supposed to advise state government and “serve as a conduit for public information” can do its job without additional resources - most likely from...
Today, I did something I have not done before. I attended a memorial service for a 29-year-old man who died in a motorcycle accident last Sunday. It is not an experience I want to repeat. Since my first funeral in the late '50s, I estimate that I have attended an average of seven funerals a year for 55 years or so. That's close to 400 of them. At some of them, I gave the eulogy. The service I attended today...
The Gallery at Next Stage presents “Passages: Charcoals by Ailyn Hoey,” from Nov. 16 through Feb. 11, with an artist reception on Sunday, Nov. 18, from 4 to 6 p.m. The Gallery, created as part of the recent $1.7 million renovation, is located at Next Stage, 15 Kimball Hill. Growing up in rural Vermont, Hoey spent many hours exploring its woods, river banks, and beaver ponds. Hoey has always liked to create with her hands and started painting and drawing...
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